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Mastering Azure Virtual Desktop

By : Ryan Mangan
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Mastering Azure Virtual Desktop

By: Ryan Mangan

Overview of this book

Azure Virtual Desktop is a cloud desktop virtualization platform that securely delivers virtual desktops and remote apps. Mastering Azure Virtual Desktop will guide you through designing, implementing, configuring, and maintaining an Azure Virtual Desktop environment effectively. This book can also be used as an exam preparation guide to help you sit the Microsoft AZ-140 exam. You’ll start with an introduction to the essentials of Azure Virtual Desktop. Next, you’ll get to grips with planning an Azure Virtual Desktop architecture before learning how to implement an Azure Virtual Desktop environment. Moving ahead, you’ll learn how to manage and control access as well as configure security controls on your Azure Virtual Desktop environment. As you progress, you’ll understand how to manage user environments and configure MSIX app attach and other Azure Virtual Desktop features to enhance the user experience. You’ll also learn about the Azure Active Directory (AD) join and getting started feature. Finally, you’ll discover how to monitor and maintain an Azure Virtual Desktop environment to help you support your users and diagnose issues when they occur. By the end of this Microsoft Azure book, you’ll have covered all the essential topics you need to know to design and manage Azure Virtual Desktop and prepare for the AZ-140 exam.
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction
3
Section 2: Planning an Azure Virtual Desktop Architecture
8
Section 3: Implementing an Azure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
13
Section 4: Managing Access and Security
16
Section 5: Managing User Environments and Apps
21
Section 6: Monitoring and Maintaining an Azure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Configuring host pool settings

This section looks at customizing a host pool, including RD properties, load balancing methods, and configuring personal host pool assignment types.

Customizing RDP properties

Azure Virtual Desktop allows you to configure and customize host pool settings using the RDP properties. This allows you to configure things such as audio redirection, video playback, and drive redirections.

The supported RDP settings are split into five different areas:

  • Connection information
  • Session behavior
  • Device redirection
  • Display settings
  • RemoteApp

These different categories contain a wide range of settings you can apply to your host pool configuration.

You can find a complete list of settings that can be applied or changed here: https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/clients/rdp-files.

You can change the RDP settings by navigating to the host pool within the Azure portal and selecting RDP Properties...